Too much bad coming from one race. They need to straighten up their lives and quit jumping on the band wag trying to make these low-life every day thugs seem like heroes. They are thugs. Hear me? Pay attention to your young teens before they are next. If it is not the cops it will be another brother killing them. Mother, do you know where your kids are now? Do you know what kind of friends they keep? Seriously!

These blogs are for Americans. You post from the arm pit of the world texass. Your comments don't count.

I feel bad for the victim and his family but this was a accident. The group was acting like a bunch of asses made the officer nervous and unfortunately a life was taken. Maybe had they done as most law abiding citizens do and shut up and listen guy would still be alive. This is a ongoing theme in low income neighborhoods the police are the enemy not the knucklehead ghettofied folks who rob, deal drugs, and shoot people. This guy didn't deserve this. but why was he so obnoxious so obnoxious he got himself a dose of hot lead.

Too much bad coming from one race. They need to straighten up their lives and quit jumping on the band wag trying to make these low-life every day thugs seem like heroes. They are thugs. Hear me? Pay attention to your young teens before they are next. If it is not the cops it will be another brother killing them. Mother, do you know where your kids are now? Do you know what kind of friends they keep? Seriously!

Jay, I am a 57 year old "white" woman. I grew up in Hayward, the city that Oscar was from. I also attended school with his older family members. My daughter attended school with some of his family members, I am well educated, never belonged to the streets, and worked a good job, so that I could retire at 51. I also did disaster volunteer work with the Red Cross, volunteered with shelters for abused women and worked with rape victims. Not to mention, that when I was in Tennessee, I set up a project to raise the money and opened a shelter for battered women. I have written articles about vehicular accidents, worked with legislators in both the Assembly and Senate for the State of CA, and also worked with a very well known attorney in the same state. On top of that, I have trained with guns, and tasers, because my family owned a security business, so I can understand this case very well.

The point I am making is that Oscar was pinned, under control, and there was no reason that officer should have pulled a weapon on him. The mere fact that he was pulling any weapon at all, on a young man who was pinned in a face down prone position, his hands were behind his back (I have been told, that he had already been cuffed, and the videos look as if that it correct.), and the station was full of people celebrating, tells me that the officer was wrong. What if that bullet had hit somebody else, instead of Oscar?

Whether I agree with the verdict or not, I have to respect it as part of the system, but in this case, the system appears to have failed us. You know the jury gave more credence to the officers than they gave to the other witnesses.

<quoted text>He was on his back because they had to fight him to get him on the ground. He was belligerent and violent. That's why the cop had his hand in the area of the weapon. You are the fool, never would have happened if Grant hadn't escalated the situation.

You have your facts wrong. The videos are all over the internet, and the coroners report confirm that Oscar Grant was face down in a prone position, and pinned with an officer's knee on his head, and the officer that shot him had his knee in Oscars back, until he stood up, and shot him in the back.

If you are going to call people fools, it would be wise to check and double check your facts, before you spew out misinformation.

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